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Also, SJha answered one of question : are we on track for 12 this year? Question is coming bcoz just 1 have been produced till now in current year. https://twitter.com/SJha1618/status/1044851828649848833 ---> HAL says it is. We still have six months to go before we come to end of fiscal 2018-19. le...

Folks, shared some thoughts on the recent photograph that depicted own soldiers dragging the body of a dead terrorist. May have a look. By the time this photograph was taken, the body would have already been checked for booby traps / concealed grenades. My reasons for believing this are 1. Dragging...

It is odd that the paramilitary forces are getting MI-17s but the army whiose requirement is 10x larger has to struggle to convince policy makers to get itw own fleet of med-lift choppers and even anti-armour Apaches

We can laugh and mock China’s progress at our own peril. The fact remains that they are a couple of decades ahead of us in most technologies and in industrialisation of that. Sure they have failures and some of their equipment is overhyped and rushed into service, but that is also an indication of t...

Prashant, Do look up the opening war sequences of Desert Storm and OAF. Apaches were used to destroy early warning sites. Pakistani radar sites have been a bug bear for IAF in 1965 and 1971. I think IAF plans to use them for their own missions and roles. I did consider this possible role (and menti...

Could also be an RPO. However I thought the size of the explosion seemed much larger than the ones in all the rpo videos on youtube. But i could be wrong. Hope someone with field contacts can confirm the weapon used. Btw does anyone knows why the SF in the 'surgical strikes carried carl gustavs and ...

Bravo! Loved how all the smart phones are whipped out to capture the moment...
From the explosion, it seemed to me to be from something fired from ground level, not something coming down from the air... wont be surprised if it was a field gun in direct fire mode from close range

Not really. IA needs support in the strike corps. Those helicopters will be organized into flights and assigned to the corps. All anti-armor role. IAF are for attack/strike role. Support secondary. Both services know this. Let's leave it at that. Can you elaborate on "attack / strike" ple...

So, how is the Hardened Air Shelter(HAS) program going for the IAF to upgrade aircraft hangers? I have given up on fast progress on this front. Will believe something is happening when i see it with my eyes on google earth. Have fretted about this particular vulnerability of the IAF for long (as it...

This is a patch for 10 sqn

Progress (or lack of it) can be viewed in planet.com's satellite imagery, which is updated once a month. The free, low-res imagery is sufficient to see that nothing has come up. Quite a good update of the helicopters. The Tumkuru facility start is now two years old . What's the progress? Tejas Line ...

Rakesh wrote:if you google the above term in images, you will find it. Please do some groundwork and not expect others to do it for you.

Have done that, and thats why i asked. There are close to nil good views of its cargo hold on the internet.

does anyone have a clear pic of the inside of a Dhruv's cabin? and if so, please post or share a link.

shiv - from what I have read elsewhere about mig21 handling: it has fantastic acceleration, agility and raw dogfighting ability coupled with high speed sprinting to and from targets, tight turning circles, etc. which make it a phenomenal - small and agile fighting platform: this is why pilots love ...

Can someone share the coordinates for the VLF facility a.k.a PNS Hameed, would like to check it on google earth

My 2 bits.... i find it very difficult to comprehend how after decades of crying out after each attack that we will retaliate at a time and place of our choosing, we hardly ever have. For this i can think of no one else but the army leadership to blame. What capability have they developed to retalia...

Karthik S wrote: May be, but you can see the IAF Roundel.

roundel was noticed... as were other clues in the background...

Mihir wrote: http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Galle ... M.jpg.html

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Galle ... 2.jpg.html

i might sound like a sceptic but to me the pictures seem like they were taken in israel....

Delivered. I recently went to Bangalore & next to Manekshaw parade ground, saw an Army billboard showing Spyder fired from Tata truck. while there may be a poster of the Spyder (photoshop?), there isnt a single photograph of it in service at any location... no announcements of its induction... ...

Does anyone have information about the delivery schedule / status of the Spyder SAM system?

in the other deltas like Gripen, the sweep angle near the fuselage is more than outer part. in Tejas it is uniquely reversed. even the avro vulcan follows the gripen rule and no other contemporary plane has the tejas layout. Atleast one example exists, and a very successful / capable one at that......

Even assuming it was a bird strike, the engine is permanently wrecked and so relight is irrelevant and impossible.

After this accident the IAF grounded the Mig-27 fleet for some time, indicating that it wasn't a bird strike. The KM-1M is not a zero-zero seat. The minimum speed at 0 altitude, like was the case here, is 130 km/h.

One site says the KM-1M ejection seat is safe for 0 feet/130 km/h. At unstick, a Mig-27 is around 340-350 km/h. Also, this was more likely a case of the turbine disintegrating, and not a fuel fire to begin with. The pilot would have done what he felt was best in the given situation.

Yes, Jagan.... very tragic.... no doubt which accident this was... even the visuals can be matched to Hashimara... and the video was clearly taken from the ATC (would appear that IAF ATCs now video record all takeoffs and landings) ... the person (Garag22) on whose page it is posted appears (or want...

Was randomly searching on youtube and came across this... very saddening ... not difficult to identify
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Z2OPh9FvI
Should someone get court-martialed for leaking this??!!!

nelson wrote:1970's Indian PoW Sepoy Jaspal Singh Located after 41 YEARS!

Tragic if true.

Does anyone know if the Govt of India has tried to verify this claim?
A request to BR forum members like Shiv Aroor and Vishnu Som with access to the official machinery to find out more about this.

prashant thanks was that CO ever punished?? Thanks for the info Let me check too It was 15 years ago and details are hard to remember but dont think anyone was blamed for the accident (definitely not the CO). Could be that they wanted to hush it up or that a number of other factors contributed alon...

Jagan, I was going through the MIG-25 thread on BRF homepage and also the material on 'Warbirds of India' site and I noticed that neither sites mention a MiG-25R that crashed near Station Arty Officers' Mess, Jodhpur in summer of 1985 or 86. The crash site was approximately 2-3kms in a straight lin...